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Quotes About Absolutes

There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides do–they turn.
~ Derek Landy
There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost ; there is victory and defeat . There are absolutes. Everything in between is still leftt to fight for.
~ Derek Landy
There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is a won and there is a lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for - Skulduggery Pleasant
~ Derek Landy
There is no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost ; there is victory and defeat. There are no absolutes. Everything inbetween is left to fight for.
~ Derek Landy
There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is a wo and a lost; there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in-between is still left to fight for.
~ Derek Landy
Preaching Christian salvation is to preach moral absolutes. Hollywood no likey.
~ Steven Crowder
There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.
~ Mary Schapiro
In Paris explanations come in a predictable sequence, no matter what is being explained. First comes the explanation in terms of the unique, romantic individual, then the explanation in terms of ideological absolutes, and then the explanation in terms of the futility of all explanation.
~ Adam Gopnik
Those of religious faith see time as evidence of god. For surely nothing could be created without a creator. Nothing could be universal and not be divine. All absolutes are part of the One Absolute.
~ Alan Lightman
Sieviete, kuru iek?ro cits, kaut ar? tas b?tu kaisles aps?sts z?rcinieks, t?l?t k??st v?rt?g?ka nek? iepriekš. T? nu ir, ka cilv?ks daudz vair?k dz?vo no relat?v?m nek? no absol?t?m v?rt?b?m.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.
~ James E. Faust
People often indiscriminately use absolutes in their utterances: every, everyone, everything, all, always, never, no one, nothing. Rarely are these absolute terms justified.
~ Robert J. Gula
Does awareness play some kind of role as a 'bridge' to a world of Platonic absolutes.
~ Roger Penrose
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
~ Alan Greenspan
I'm basically a happy person. I'm content with my life and my wife and my family. But you do reach a point where you start to question the absolutes that are supposedly out there, and you realize that there simply are no absolutes.
~ Myles Kennedy
Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts. We need both.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.
~ Henry Kissinger
Good became identified with anything that redounded to the benefit of Muslims, regardless of whether it violated moral or other laws. The moral absolutes enshrined in the Ten Commandments, and other teachings of the great religions that preceded Islam, were swept aside in favor of an overarching principle of expediency.
~ Robert Spencer
Of love and my parents, there is little to be written; their relationship to their children was utilitarian. We were fed and housed and dressed and outfitted with more cash than our associates and that was all. We were also vaguely taught certain vague absolutes: that we were better than no one but infinitely superior to everyone...
~ Lorraine Hansberry
Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.
~ Frank Herbert
Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!
~ Frank Herbert
He was reminded that the more he ordered the weather controlled, the more there was that required control. Absolutes only brought him closer to vagaries.
~ Frank Herbert
Their bodies, their clothes, and their faces described individual hells—the insucked breast of concealed terrors, the glittering hook of a jewel become substitute armor, the mouths were judgments full of frightened absolutes, cathedral prisms of eyebrows.
~ Frank Herbert